quesiton on Clutch selection on a powere wheel barrow?

[BHD]

Have you thought about going hydraulic? Tried and true. Get a used pump off a junk man lift, or scissor lift, and a hydraulic motor off ebay. You could use a winsmith gear reducer for a gear box. Making axle shafts with u-joints isn't hard to do at all, if you have a decent welding machine. You could do it all on a very low budget, and fab it with parts you can get from any local automotive parts supply. A 2HP gas engine could power it, and use much less fuel than most other options.

I toyed with the idea of a hydraulic drive, but figured the cost would escalate rapidly, and I would want a differential or two motors, and tee them, IF I would build a second heavy duty unit I would consider hydraulic and make it a rider, unit some what like the "Georgia concrete buggy" but I do like this tracked unit in the video, below, Concrete Buggy (16 Cu Ft Capacity) | Ed's Rental and Sales

what I am making will have about 6 cubic foot capacity about the same as a contractors wheel barrow,

the normal Georgia style buggy is capable of handing about three time of the standard wheel barrow,

 

[CDennyRun]

Nice, that's pretty dang cool. With that kind of load, you better be on good level ground with the bucket raised!

So have you came to any good conclusions on your search yet?

 

[jenkinsph]

There have been several suggestions made that could work but the garden tractor axle looks good so far. It would seem the best at controlling the speed and being able to stop well too. Inching forward and reverse could be difficult with most other drive methods. Being able to stop without someone getting hurt on a slope would seem to be an important consideration. Just being in neutral isn't good enough.


For concrete work I use a truck for larger jobs but the small jobs usually vary in the method used. I have a small wheel barrow mixer that can handle two sacks at a time that has paid for itself many times. I have had to pump some jobs and will hire a pump and operator on those rare occasions.

Thought I would mention one other thing, the older I get the heavier the sacks of concrete get. While at Lowes the other day I checked the price of the 50# sacks and the 80# sacks, I was surprised to find the smaller sacks to be a few cents cheaper per pound. Guess I will be buying sackrete in 50# bags from now on.

 

[BHD]

I live on a very flat location, but would like capable of being used in rolling or hilly areas as well,

I was going to use the brake that is on the lawn tractor transmission, but considering some type of "parking brake" that would be a positive engagement, (such as a pin in to a hole in the rim or some bars to lock in to on the wheel, or some thing similar). or maybe some type of kart brake.
as said in post 19, I think I will start with a belt tightener clutch and see how that works,